PI Perspectives
Our take on important issues affecting the prevention community.
Every community deserves to thrive. Since 2019, Communities of Care (CoC), a five-year initiative that supports collaborative approaches to wellbeing in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area, has partnered with local leaders, residents, and organizations to address the systemic drivers of health inequities and work toward sustainable, community-driven change. Through initiatives like Babies in Baytown, we’ve empowered residents in neighborhoods such as OST/South Union in Houston to advocate for their wellbeing, taking on challenges like environmental justice, safety, and neighborhood
This 1-pager demonstrates how SHINE treats belonging, healing, and cultural practice as core infrastructure that enables leadership, organizing, and sustained collective action.
This 1-pager highlights SHINE’s investment in embodied, culturally grounded leadership pathways that transform individuals into collective leaders who sustain community power and action.
This 1-pager shows how SHINE builds and resources anchor organizations that become trusted go-to hubs, translating community power into concrete systems and policy wins.
In this piece, Kalia Pannell reflects on growing up in El Paso and how dominant narratives about communities along our border often miss what matters most: relationships, resilience, and lived experience.
In today’s fast-paced news cycle, it’s easy to get swept up in striking statistics: percentages about government cuts, projections for the future, or data points tied to policy outcomes. But numbers alone rarely tell the full story. They don’t always reflect how changes are felt in communities, what people on the ground are saying, or who is stepping up to challenge inequitable policies and institutions. What we deem to be credible and valuable evidence has the power to shape what is possible for our communities. Narratives, built from collections of stories repeated over time, are central to
View this email in your browser With our hearts full, we congratulate Sheila Savannah on her upcoming retirement Prevention Institute began partnering with Sheila Savannah around 2007 when she was in a leadership role at the Houston Health Department. She had joined as Houston’s representative to our UNITY City Network, a group of health departments and mayors’ offices representing the largest cities in the U.S. that were advancing a public health approach to community safety and gun violence prevention. Immediately, we benefitted from Sheila’s unwavering commitment to systemic impact and
